NEW YORK, Sept. 7 (UPI) -- Federal documents indicate a New York drug kingpin was out to kill 50 Cent and may have killed Run-DMC's Jam Master Jay for playing the rapper's music.
Kenneth "Supreme" McGriff was angered by 50 Cent's song "Ghetto Koran," which told the history of McGriff's "Supreme Team" drug gang, the New York Daily News reported Wednesday.
"Messages transmitted over the (hip-hop record label) Murder Inc. pager indicate that McGriff is involved in an ongoing plot to murder this rap artist," IRS agent Francis Mace wrote in a 2003 affidavit.
50 Cent was shot and wounded shortly after the 2000 release of the song and was "blacklisted in the recording industry," the affidavit said.
Mace also wrote of a possible link between the feud and the unsolved shooting death of Jay, 37, who was killed by a masked gunman in his recording studio in October 2002.
McGriff is on trial in New York on multiple murder charges and Murder Inc. founder Irving "Irv Gotti" Lorenzo and his brother, Chris, have a pending trial for allegedly laundering McGriff's drug money through their label.
